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I got a very official looking red screen with the Firefox logo titled "Urgent Firefox update". It had the normal looking opening file box asking me if I wanted to save t… (funda kabanzi)

I got a very official looking red screen with the Firefox logo titled "Urgent Firefox update". It had the normal looking opening file box asking me if I wanted to save the file: firefox-patch.exe, a binary file from https://ahghointernetno.net . I closed the window and started researching if this was real. I did make a print screen copy to WordPad but was unable to upload it here do to unsupported file type.

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Have updated Firefox and always make sure I have downloaded the recent version but keep getting spam pop-ups which is absolutely ridiculous. I could be reading an email … (funda kabanzi)

Have updated Firefox and always make sure I have downloaded the recent version but keep getting spam pop-ups which is absolutely ridiculous. I could be reading an email OR an article and the spam pop-ups will bring the red screen and ask me to download. I always have to pay extra attention that I don't "download" and allow POS spammers to take over my life. Amazing Firefox is not aware of these spam pop-ups OR just don't care !!!!!

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I got a notice to patch firefox on a new site. Downloaded and clicked on it without thinking. Looks like it is a virus or malware. Now I am getting repeated requests fro… (funda kabanzi)

I got a notice to patch firefox on a new site. Downloaded and clicked on it without thinking. Looks like it is a virus or malware. Now I am getting repeated requests from flash for permission to update. What should I do?
Thanks

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Starting around the beginning of this month (July) I get prompted once a day or so to update Firefox. Each day is a different link, I know it isn't Firefox actually tryin… (funda kabanzi)

Starting around the beginning of this month (July) I get prompted once a day or so to update Firefox. Each day is a different link, I know it isn't Firefox actually trying to update. I've seen many other people voicing the same concerns. I've run Malwarebytes and Windows Defender and they haven't found anything. The first time this popped up earlier this month, Windows Defender activated saying it had blocked malware: trojan/kovner if I remember correctly. It doesn't matter what site I'm on, usually just browsing Reddit non external links. Once a day. I took a screenshot of the site of the day (July 13th around 3am) early this morning and will add it to the post.

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Almost every time I am on Facebook and click on Farmville to play that game, the first time I click on to go to my farm, I've been getting the "official-looking" red fire… (funda kabanzi)

Almost every time I am on Facebook and click on Farmville to play that game, the first time I click on to go to my farm, I've been getting the "official-looking" red firefox screen and logo pop up with a gray colored pop up box that says it's an urgent firefox update. I've never clicked on the save button, I alwasy click cancel, close the pop up box, go back to Facebook and click on Farmville again, and everything runs fine, The latest one I encountered says it was a Java script coming from the following link, again it popped up after I logged into Facebook, and clicked on Farmville. Here's the link and file info:
Urgent firefox update
firefox-patch.js
JavaScript File (2.6 KB)
from https://podaimt2.nethttps://podaimt2.net/4761283090238/bea2ae3697608b4f8ce3a682c30d7e46.html

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I was just interrupted in my browsing by a "flash screen" which had the Firefox logo and a dialogue asking me to download a Patch. I've downloaded by not opened the pat… (funda kabanzi)

I was just interrupted in my browsing by a "flash screen" which had the Firefox logo and a dialogue asking me to download a Patch. I've downloaded by not opened the patch to install it. This is the first time in decades of computer work that I've every seen anything like this. Is this a legit Firefox patch? Or some sort of hack?

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Read a few other complaints on this.
Assumed it was not legit. Did not open. Very good graphic though, I'm sure there are a lot of takers..
Running adblockplus. Read on… (funda kabanzi)

Read a few other complaints on this.
Assumed it was not legit. Did not open. Very good graphic though, I'm sure there are a lot of takers..
Running adblockplus. Read on another thread that ABP users were not having this issue.

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I believe that the above message is an attempt to take over my PC. Only way to get rig of the update request is to close out my browser and start over. Have gotten this… (funda kabanzi)

I believe that the above message is an attempt to take over my PC. Only way to get rig of the update request is to close out my browser and start over. Have gotten this several times over the past few weeks.

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I have been having this malware come up like others but it recently changed. Before, it just opened in a new tab. Now, it actually loads as a new page on the current tab;… (funda kabanzi)

I have been having this malware come up like others but it recently changed. Before, it just opened in a new tab. Now, it actually loads as a new page on the current tab; even if nothing is clicked and my hands are physically off the keyboard and mouse. Additionally, it automatically tries to download a file but I am able to stop it without it running (as far as I know). Like mentioned before, the link to the page is white when followed. I have only been having this issue on one site, reddit and more specifically reddit.com/r/totalwar.

What happens each time is that sometimes when I click a link to either a forum post, the comments, or an imgur post. After the page loads and a few seconds pass, the 'Urgent Update' page loads and replaces the page that was intended. It then does what I described above. For me, no other sites have this issue but I wanted to contribute to try and help this seemingly growing issue. Are there any solutions or steps that have been identified thus far?

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Every so often I receive a page saying I need to upgrade my Firefox software. It appears as a new page covering up what I am looking at and unless I am fast it starts a d… (funda kabanzi)

Every so often I receive a page saying I need to upgrade my Firefox software. It appears as a new page covering up what I am looking at and unless I am fast it starts a download. I can not catch the address except that it has .js as the end instead of a .com.